Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:25:38 -0300 From: Guillermo Espertino <gespertino@xxxxxxxxx> Loo wrote: > I'm not a developer, but I am a pro, and I would love to see some kind > of tab implimentation--as long as the individual images can be > undocked or detabbed allowing more than one image open at a time. In > fact, that's the most profound idea I'd read about for the UI. > Yes, sure. But detachable tabs aren't too different to the photoshop "windows in a window" approach, and maybe it's a better idea to choose that instead of tabs (for people who usually rant because Gimp UI isn't like photoshop's). Personally, I'd greatly prefer tabs to nested windows for anything like this (in general, I detest nested-window MDI interfaces for any purpose). I find the two interface paradigms completely different -- nested windows have all of the clutter problems as individual windows, without the advantages of floating windows (ability to be independently managed, using my existing window manager paradigm which may be very different from what the MDI designer selected). My two use cases for this are: * I have multiple photos of the same subject with slightly different composition, lighting, what have you and I want to decide which one to work on. Nested windows don't help me; I still have to hunt for the multiple images. Tabs let me easily alternate and compare the two (or more) images, at the same size and position on the screen. * I have selected multiple photos to process sequentially. The photos aren't related, other than being part of the same job. In this case, having all of the photographs as separate tabs makes the screen a lot less cluttered than having multiple windows, whether independent or nested. It's like separate pages in a book. I may well open extra floating windows to work on the individual images, but I don't need each image to have its own window. There is *no* situation I can think of where I'd like to have multiple floating sub-windows within a larger workspace window. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
